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If you use Gmail, then you're on it every day; at work, at home and on your phone. That's why you should make sure you get the most out of it. In this week's installment of Hack Tricks, you'll get to know Google's email service a bit better. SEE ALSO...

Google has announced that three Gmail Labs add-ons have graduated and become standard Gmail features. Starting today, users now have access to Superstars, Nested Labels and Advanced IMAP Controls as part of the regular Gmail experience. The Google Se...

Gmail's "Labs" features, brought to you by the experiments of Google staffers, is one of our favorite parts of the webmail service. While some Labs features, such as the great Mail "Beer" Goggles are fun, others can seriously up your productivity lev...

Poor Bob. If he's not being left out of emails, he's being confused with other Bobs. But Google's got Bob's back; it's graduating its two Gmail Labs features -- "Don't forget Bob" and "Got the wrong Bob?" -- Wednesday and turning them on for all Gmai...

Google introduced Wednesday a new Gmail Labs feature to help users better organize and classify their e-mail: Smart Labels. The new Smart Labels are designed to complement the Priority Inbox feature that the Gmail team introduced last year. Like Prio...

Did you know you can undo a sent e-mail in Gmail? It's a lesser known feature, but Google just made it even better than it was before. When it first launched, you were given a 5-second window during which you could hit "undo." Now that's up to 30 sec...

Heavy Gmail label users will appreciate the latest experimental feature, available in Gmail Labs: Nested Labels, which let you organize your inbox into as many categories and subcategories as you like. To enable it, open Settings -- Gmail Labs, and e...

E-mail has played a large role in my life for roughly 13 years and in that time, it has also been the catalyst for a few embarrassing moments. That's why I dig so many of the Gmail Labs features dedicated to trying to make those embarrassments a litt...

Sometimes the same old email signature day in and day out just won't cut it. If you're a Gmail user looking for some ways to mix it up a bit, you've come to the right place. Here are five ways to spice up your Gmail signature. These tips vary from th...

You may rarely see an email in your inbox that's not in your native language, but on the off chance that you do, what's your translation strategy? Copy and paste into a translation engine, right? The process is only complicated further for those of u...

Google has been on a tear with Gmail lately - it has been releasing new features at a rapid pace. You can now watch YouTube videos within Gmail, undo sent messages, and as of this week, you are able to insert images into Gmail. These are all useful a...

Another day, another new feature in Gmail Labs. This one could be more useful than most, as it’s something you probably have a reason to use with some frequency. It’s called “Undo Send,” and as the name suggests, it lets you take back a sent email, a...

Google's been busy making sure you never have to leave their products to view the content your friends share with you. They recently made YouTube videos watchable in Gmail chat, and now they're extending that functionality to your entire inbox. Your ...

Forget paper? That may be a little drastic (and presumptuous), but the Gmail blog has an incredibly tongue-in-cheek post that details how paper, even in our modern times, has been the scrap pad of choice for quickly jotting down tasks. Google seems t...

As if your friends linking you to YouTube videos isn’t distracting enough … now you can actually watch the videos from inside of Gmail chats. When someone sends you a YouTube link, you’ll now get a thumbnail preview of the video. Click play and anoth...

While most web mail services have remained largely unchanged over the last ten years or so, Google has been updating GMail on a near constant basis, whether it's updating the core of the product or releasing new upgrades via the Labs. Earlier this ev...

So Gmail just enabled the new Labs tab under your Settings, in an effort to get some users to try out the experimental features Google is playing around with. One of the biggest benefits, at least for testing purposes, is that you can enable multiple...

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